> Quick Lookup Information > > Applications have previously have made some information quickly available by > using a tooltip on the icon. While I don't wish to start the tooltip > discussion again, what I'm curious about is we can't find a solution for > this information that isn't a tooltip. Does some sort of standard menu item > help? Could we put it somewhere else? > Skipping the rest of your questions: I think that it would be best to only allow certain applications to display 'quick lookup information'. I'm thinking: put all media players together with all other audio-using-applications -- USE PulseAudio's features! -- in the sound menu and make there room for showing the currently playing song. Put other 'quick lookup information' in the battery applet, etc.
All this information would not be put in there using ugly hacks like insensitive menu items, but instead using a predefined protocol. The applet can than process the information. We could show the information in a tooltip, but we could also use insensitive menu items if we cannot think of anything else. We could also do both, we have the information and can decide how to process it. This would also make it easier if the design specification changes in later releases. Regards, -- Sense Hofstede [ˈsɛn.sə ˈɦɔf.steː.də] _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
